woo hope

What gives me hope?
It's the simple things that really matter. The chirp of a bird, the wave of a person in a passing car, laughter, fresh water, people helping one another. When thinking about all the bad things that are happening in the world I rather look at the little things that help make the world a better place. It's a lot more enjoyable. Now don't get me wrong we should consider the bad things but we shouldn't focus on them all the time because that will just burn us out!
Last summer I had an amazing opportunity to go to Peru for 3 months with Goshen College. Goshen college has a program called Study Service Term (SST) where the students are required to go to a developing country for 3 months w a group to learn the culture, history, language, and serve. While in Peru it helped showed me a different perspective on life. With having communication barriers I was amazed about how easy I was able to connect with the people I met in Peru, they showed me so much compassion. This experience helped give me hope because I was able to see that valuing all types of people is the way to change for the better good. I think it's important to listen to all people's stories and hear where they are coming from so we can develop a system where all people feel that they are being heard and getting what they want. And it doesn't hurt to have some fun and laughter along the way to keep that happiest going...